Cookies Policy

Like most websites, this one uses cookies. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your browser. They’re used for many things, such as remembering whether you’ve visited the site before, so that you remain logged in – or to help us work out how many new website visitors we get each month. They contain information about the use of your computer but don’t include personal information about you (they don’t store your name, for instance). You can think of cookies as providing a “memory” for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately. Each web domain can only access cookies stored by that specific web domain, meaning that only the edworthycomputing.co.uk servers can access the cookies set by the edworthycomputing.co.uk domain.

This policy explains how cookies are used on the edworthycomputing.co.uk websites in general – and, below, how you can control the cookies that may be used on this site. By accessing the website, you agree that this Cookie Policy will apply whenever you access the website on any device. Any changes to this policy will be posted here. We reserve the right to vary this Cookie Policy from time to time and such changes shall become effective as soon as they are posted. Your continued use of the website constitutes your agreement to all such changes.

Our use of cookies

A visit to a page on edworthycomputing.co.uk may generate the following types of cookie: Google analytics cookies: These monitor how visitors move around the website and how they reached it. This is used so that we can see total (not individual) figures on which types of content users enjoy most, for instance. These cookies can tell us whether or not you’ve visited the site before. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site. These cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. You can opt out of these if you want: Google: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Third party advertising cookies

edworthycomputing.co.uk serve elements of pages from multiple sources, and so after visiting either site you may see other cookies from third parties. Some of these third parties use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once. The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, and edworthycomputing.co.uk has no access to read or write these cookies. These third party advertising cookies may be used by those third parties to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to edworthycomputing.co.uk For more information about this type of online behavioural advertising, about cookies, and about how to turn this feature off. Please visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

Other third party cookies

Social sharing, video and other services we offer are run by other companies. These companies may drop cookies on your computer when you use them on our site or if you are already logged in to them. Because of how cookies work, edworthycomputing.co.uk cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by edworthycomputing.co.uk. Here you can find out more about specific services that we may use and their use of cookies:

When you register with edworthycomputing.co.uk, we generate cookies that represent whether you are signed in or not. Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. Unless you click “Remember me” when you sign in, these cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer. Some cookies are set to remember your preferences, eg the background colour, the last time you viewed the forums so that you can see the latest posts, whether you want maps to be shown by default etc.

Advertising cookies

Sometimes we need to know whether or not you’ve seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you’ve seen it. In order to do this, we place a cookie on your machine when we show you some types of advertising. These cookies are anonymous, they simply count page views.

We do not recommend turning cookies off when visiting edworthycomputing.co.uk, as this will prevent you from registering, signing in, and using many of the services on the site. Basically the site won’t work properly! If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the third party’s websites above and getting them to generate a one-time “no thanks” cookie, which will stop any further cookies being served to your machine.

Using your browser to control cookies

Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can change the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. These links explain how you can control cookies via your browser – remember that if you turn off cookies in your browser then these settings apply to all websites not just this one.